Usually means: Christian holiday celebrating Holy Spirit.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pentecost: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Pentecost, Pentecost: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pentecost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Pentecost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Pentecost: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Pentecost: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pentecost, pentecost: Wordnik
  8. Pentecost, pentecost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pentecost: Wiktionary
  10. Pentecost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Pentecost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Pentecost: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pentecost: Dictionary.com
  14. Pentecost: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pentecost (Moretto), Pentecost (disambiguation), Pentecost (film), Pentecost (play), Pentecost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pentecost: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pentecost: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Pentecost: Rhymezone
  19. Pentecost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pentecost: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pentecost: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pentecost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Pentecost: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Pentecost: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pentecost (Jewish Feast), Pentecost: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pentecost: Easton Bible
  2. Pentecost (Jewish Feast): Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Pentecost: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See pentecosts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The Jewish festival of Shavuot.
noun:  The particular day of Pentecost, which in Christian teaching is said to have occurred fifty days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the Day of First Fruits, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they did not know; or a similar occasion since.
noun:  The Christian festival (also known as Whitsun or Whitsunday), which commemorates the day of Pentecost.
noun:  Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.
noun:  A surname.

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